Weiner’s mayoral campaign manager quits

The campaign manager for embattled New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner has called it quits after more revelations surfaced about his boss’s habit of sending sexually charged messages to women online.

The former New York congressman admitted last week that he continued to send explicit photographs and messages to women even after he resigned from Congress in 2011. He quit after it was revealed he’d been sending lewd pictures to women.

A Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll taken July 24 showed Weiner drawing 16% support among registered Democrats, putting him in second place behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Quinn’s support was at 25%, a 14-percentage-point swing in her favor compared with a poll taken in June, the Journal said.

Weiner told the Times on Sunday that volunteers are still signing up for his campaign and that “we have an excellent staff.”